CINCO CANCIONES DE NIÑOS Y DOS CANCIONES PROFANAS · [Poemas: Antonio Trueba (I), anónimo (II); poemas y textos: Federico García Lorca (III, IV, V, VI, VII); primera versión, para voz y piano] Version for voice and piano |
Work information
Autograph
Sketches (2)
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| Instrumental genre | Music for voice and piano |
| Other versions: | Version for small orchestra |
| Place of composition | Morelia |
| Date of composition | April 7–10, 1938 |
| Dedication | For Sonia Verbitzky, with my great and ever affectionate admiration |
| Duration | 10’ |
| Instrumentation | Middle voice, pf |
| Documentary archive | The autograph and two sketches have been preserved. |
| Notes by compiler | The sketches appear on two pages of the draft score of Itineraries, which he composed during his trip to the city of Morelia in 1938. His arrangement of War Song of the Loyalist Fronts and possibly Front to Front also date to this trip. |
| Periodical references | Castañeda, Daniel. “Música.” Letras de Mexico II:6 (June 15, 1939). |
| Publications | G. Schirmer, Inc., published as Five Songs of Childhood. G. Schirmer, Inc.’s edition contains only the first five songs of the cycle, entitled Five Songs of Childhood, with poems translated by Claire Soecensky and Erminie Huntress. “Serenade” and “It’s True” were published separately in another edition by G. Schirmer, Inc. |